I don't care too much about quality in Shaft, it's not KyoAni. What's important is narration, style of art, witty script... 8 episodes of slideshow >>> 4 episodes of quality art.
Let's just hope they won't cut out anything important to the story.

Question to people who read LNs - is it possible to stuff Nekomonogatari Black in just 4 episodes?

I rewatched Bakemonogatari and Nisemonogatari recently and could not take waiting for the Kizumonogatari film anymore so i finally caved in and read the novel for Kizumonogatari because i wanted to know more about the relationship between Araragi and Shinobu. Then i went and read the Nekomonogatari: Kuro and Nekomonogatari: Shiro, Kuro is good but Shiro is even better that really was a good novel but Kuro helped make Shiro as good as it was.

Reading both Kuro and Shiro really made me like Hanekawa alot more, before just watching Bake and Nise i did not dislike her but after Kuro and Shiro really made her better for me.

Now i am left with that horrible sadness of wanting to read all the others and waiting for translations which is why i tried to avoid reading the novels till now (i am still avoiding the spice and wolf novels till all are published in english though), though having Kuro animated so soon is a nice big plus just wish they would get Kisumonogatari film out already to many delays on it.

Ehh, I can't agree. If you don't pair the amusing chatter with amusing visuals, it just doesn't feel right. I mean, do you really want TV-version Nadeko Snake Pt 2 again? Even Nisemonogatari kinda screwed up the last episode visually, in my opinion. It really takes me out of it because if an episode is just 24 minutes of talking (albeit fun talking!), it's nice to have something to occupy the eyes at the same time. Otherwise it might as well stay a novel.

Yes you are right the TV version of the last episode of Nisemonogatari was a little unfinished very obvious in the fight but i watched the blu ray for that this week and they did a nice job of doing it properly and putting all the scenes in at least.

I guess its time to see how much the Japanese really do hate Hanekawa compared to the other girls, if the polls are right. If the sales for this are a lot lower than any of the other series, I'd say those polls do have validity.

RyanSaotome said:I guess its time to see how much the Japanese really do hate Hanekawa compared to the other girls, if the polls are right. If the sales for this are a lot lower than any of the other series, I'd say those polls do have validity.

hate=/=dislike.

but the people who automatically think that "It has no gahara-san it sucks" are a bit retarded.And that comes from someone that likes Hitagi.

RyanSaotome said:I guess its time to see how much the Japanese really do hate Hanekawa compared to the other girls, if the polls are right. If the sales for this are a lot lower than any of the other series, I'd say those polls do have validity.

Is it hate or just liking other girls better? I know Hitagi and Nadeko seem to be the most popular, but didn't know there was special animosity towards Tsubasa. True that she was my least favorite in Bake (though I liked her) but Nise really made me like her more. Though I have a terribly difficult time ranking the Monogatari girls, especially when you add in Shinobu, Tsukihi and Karen...

...Mayoi is still the best though.

Well hate is probably too strong of a word. Just I've always heard she is pretty much a non factor when it comes to the popularity rankings of the girls, since she has a pretty unpopular type of archetype and character design. And for a series dedicated to her, I can't see the fanbase getting as excited to go out and buy it vs an adaption thats about a more popular girl.

RyanSaotome said:I guess its time to see how much the Japanese really do hate Hanekawa compared to the other girls, if the polls are right. If the sales for this are a lot lower than any of the other series, I'd say those polls do have validity.

Is it hate or just liking other girls better? I know Hitagi and Nadeko seem to be the most popular, but didn't know there was special animosity towards Tsubasa. True that she was my least favorite in Bake (though I liked her) but Nise really made me like her more. Though I have a terribly difficult time ranking the Monogatari girls, especially when you add in Shinobu, Tsukihi and Karen...

...Mayoi is still the best though.

I would of thought they would like Hanekawa more after Kuro and Shiro it fleshes out her character a hell of alot and gives her good solid development by the end of Shiro, she is even the one narrating Shiro instead of Araragi so you get to be right inside her head. I like her alot more now, though Shinobu and Hitagi i like more but it does not mean i dont like Hanekawa and pretty much every character in the monogatari series alot NisioIsin just writes damn good characters so it is so hard to pick you just like them all.

Though i am very intrested in reading Otorimonogatari for Nadeko after accidently seeing a few spoilers about her.

This microburst formula of episodes is certainly unique, but it might also be genius. ie let's air the arc that we complete. every few months will be a spectacle event. the show's popularity will carry it.

Well obviously they'd animate it while they're on work smartass, you tried.

No, really?

My point is that there is a huge amount of material left and it would be an enormous undertaking to release it all at once. And if they did try to hold everything off until they can do all the stories at once, considering all the other things Shaft is working oi as well, you wouldn't see it for a few years.

I'd rather they just release them as they go, with other stuff mixed in along the way.

xtremexx said:wait, is it a movie?

Four episodes aired at once. Think of it like a made for TV movie, essentially.

So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?

I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?

I wonder how long people would put up with this.

As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.

They're airing them all in one go so the distinction is pretty much cosmetic, but there are four parts in any case. I can see it getting split up for subsequent airings elsewhere in a more traditional episode format as well.

So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old?

I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them?

I wonder how long people would put up with this.

As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series.

symbv said:^ Now I wonder if they are going to broadcast OP and ED four times in one go (probably yes).

Interesting that while in terms of amount of text Nekomonogatari Kuro is almost the same as Nisemonogatari but while the latter has one whole cour, the former has only 4 episodes.

Well like 80+ pages were given in the start of the book to Araragi's conversation with Tsukihi mostly and a little with Karen (Nisio even stated in the novel he gave nearly a quarter of the book to Araragi playing with his sisters lol) so it might be cut down or just flow faster, it will be probably be covered in 1 episode. Though 4 episodes might be a little tight i guess.